Nick Xenophon raps and dances in South Australian election ad – video

The SA Best leader, Nick Xenophon, has made headlines with his so-bad-it's-good South Australian election campaign music video. But Xenophon isn't the first Australian politician to try and connect with voters through cringeworthy renditions. Clive Palmer infamously twerked for votes in 2013, Scott Ludlam ran a respectable turntable session at a Greens party fundraiser in 2014, Bill Shorten and Malcolm Turnbull achieved lacklustre results as rappers in 2017, and Craig Emerson's 2012 rendition of the Skyhooks classic Horror Movie was exactly that